After reaching an agreement with Gerard Piqué for the sake of his children and announcing that he will start a new life in Miami, it was rumored that Shakira would go back to world accompanied by the K-pop group BTS and the hip pop band Black Eyed Peaswith whom he would participate in the Qatar 2022 inauguration.
However, the Colombian singer is not in her personal best moment and her presence in the Qatar World Cup 2022 was criticized on social networks, due to the controversy that exists around the country.
According to Ana Rosa’s program, in Spain, Shakira will not perform at the ceremonya decision that would have been made just a week after the start of the most important sports fair in the world.
“I have been confirmed that Shakira will not perform at the opening ceremonybut they do not confirm if it has any role throughout the World Cup,” said Adriana Dorronsoro, a collaborator of the Telecinco program.
Sandra Aladro, another collaborator of the Telecinco space, pointed out that she has spoken with the artist’s environment: “They have confirmed to me that today his participation is not confirmed“.
At the program table, they asked that their situation be further clarified, to the point that it is the artist herself who puts order about her work commitments.
“His name was like guest artistnow he will have to send a statement to explain everything, it is not worth what the environment says”.
Dua Lipa refuses to sing in Qatar
Although the Qatar 2022 opening ceremony will take place on sunday november 20 in the Al Bayt Stadium from the city of Jor at 7:00 p.m. (local time), Shakira was already scheduled to welcome soccer fans along with two other celebrities.
In early October, some media outlets claimed that the FIFA He was closing the negotiation with three celebrities, among them the name of Shakira sounded strong, who has already collaborated in three other World Cups: Germany 2006, South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014.
According to information from Total Reporter, the Colombian would open the World Cup in Qatar with the British singer, Dua Lipaand the members of BTS, a famous Korean K-pop band, who, apparently, will debut on the opening stage of the world Cup.
However, the English singer ended the speculation and He denied having had conversations to be at the big sporting event and therefore assured that he will not sing at the opening, as has been rumored.
The IG story posted by Dua Lipa
And it is that, the singer is LGBT+ community activist and he dealt with publicly hating the situation in Qatar, a country anchored to certain cultural issues for which it has been fighting around the world.
Through his Instagram account, he published: “There is currently speculation that he will perform at the opening ceremony of the World Cup in Qatar. I will not act nor have I ever participated in any negotiation to act”.
He added: “I will be cheering on England from afar and I hope to visit Qatar when it has fulfilled all the human rights promises it did when it won the right to host the World Cup. A hug, Dua x.”
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